Filing apparatus



Feb. 7, 1928.

L. C. RIDGE FILING APPARATUS Filed March 1, 192,4

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FILING APPARATUS.

Application filed March 1,

The in ention relates to improvements in tiling apparatus described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form a part .of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel construction of the pockets or folders and constitutes an improvement on my prior Patent Number 1,468,213 granted on September 18th, 1928 for improvements in filing apparatus.

One objector-the invention is -to provide means foraocommodating matter to be filed, which is especially adapted for use with the arrangement shown in my said former patent and which at the same time may be adapted for use with other supporting means.

Another object is to provide for the special requirements in respect to the filing of Various articles such as phonograph records, letters, folded documents and other matter.

A still further object is to provide a continuous series of pockets or folders adapted to function Without the employment of suspension means.

And generally the objects of the invention are to provide filing apparatus which will be inexpensive to manufacture, simple to install, efficient in operation and durable.

ln the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the filing apparatus in position in a drawer, portions of each being broken away to clearly disclose the construction.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of a portion of the continuous series of pockets shown in Figure 1, the bottom of the filing drawer and the lateral supports for the pockets being shown in section.

Like numerals of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the various figures.

Referring to the drawings 1 is a drawer comprising a bottom 1, and walls 2 and 3 and side walls 4.

5 are trackways adapted to support the bars 6 which are transversely arranged in relation thereto and are provided with suitable means to permit of their being moved on said trackways towards and away from one another, the construction of said tracle ways and of said supports or riders being described and claimed in my said former pateat and not constituting features of the pres ent invention.

The pockets '7 are constructed of inflexible material and rest on the drawer bottom i924. Serial No. 696,186.

without the neces 'ty of being; suspended m the riders 5 as is necessary in the case or the fold s described in my said former lterial to e nd over the tively and to provide Vsnaped files thereb@lI-WQ Il,0 ormed bf separate, pieces foldthe adjoinin edges. of acent files secured together above the corresponding riders; the walls of said pockets in any case being of considerably greater height than the distance between the tops of the riders and the drawer bottom so as to leave the pock ts entirely free of engagement with the riders and thus permit of the proper coordination of the pockets and riddurins; the opening or closin operations.

The pccmts may be scored transversely a; S if desirable to permit of expansion and considered. necessary the under sides of the bottoms or scored portions may be reinforced with linen or other suitable material.

As the walls of the pockets are constructed of inflexible material it is apparentthat said pockets will only accommodate contents of a thickness equal to the width of the scored portion expanded and as a consequence an increase in the amount of contents will simply end to spread the bottom of the pocket and draw d-invnwardlv on the walls thereof, but as the total depth of said walls is greater than the height of the riders from the bottom of the drawer said pockets will not at any time be suspended from said riders.

In the event, however, of a forced in a lateral direction, as when the drawer is opened violently, the scent ridwill arrest the lateral l'l'lOYlllQDl] of said pocket and constitute a lateral support therefor.

l l hat I claim is:

1. .ln filing apparatus, in combination, a drawer, a member folded transversely at intervals throughout its length to form vertical V shaped pockets having inflexible walls. adapted to rest on the iilrawer bottom. said walls being scored transversely to permit of the bottom of said pockets respectively being spread by the contents thereof, and transverse bars positioned between adjacent pocket being pockets intermediate of the height thereof and constituting lateral supports therefor, said bars being mounted for movement longitudinally of said drawer.

2. In filing apparatus, in combination, a drawer, a member folded transversely at intervals throughout its length to form vertical V shaped pockets having inflexible Walls adapted to reston the drawer bottom, said walls being scored transversely to permit of the bottom of said pockets respectively being spread by the contents thereof, and transversely arranged longitudinally movable bars positioned between said pockets respectively, said bars being positioned on a lower plane than the tops of said pockets and constituting lateral supports for said pockets.

3. In filing apparatus, the combination of a drawer, bars extending transversely of said drawer and slidable longitudinally thereof, and integral. V shaped pockets positioned between adjacent bars respectively 'andstanding on the drawer bottom permanently free of suspension from said bars.

4. In filing apparatus, the combination of a drawer, a plurality of integral parallel transverse pockets adapted to stand on the bottom of said drawer and being capable of spreading n'loveinent longitudinally of said drawer, the walls of said pockets being scored to permit of the expansion of the bottoms thereof, and transversely arranged 1at- 'erally movable bars positioned within said drawer between the respective pockets and constituting lateral supports only therefor.

Signed at the city of Toronto, Ont, this fifth day of February, 1924.

LEONARD CLAYTON RIDGE. 

